Paper short abstract:

This presentation takes the form of a short poetry reading and an short audiovisual film connected to my (auto)ethnographic work on intersectional spatiality. The presentation explore questions connected to memory, place, class, gender, and age.

Paper long abstract:

This presentation takes the form of a short poetry reading and an short audiovisual film connected to my (auto)ethnographic work on intersectional spatiality. Using creative writing in the poetry form as well as editing a film, where I use family photographs, new filmed material, my own memories, voice and childhood health card, as well as my brother´s memories and voice, the presentation explore questions connected to memory, place, class, gender, and age.

I argue, that the same neighborhood can cause experiences of feeling stuck or wanting to stay put, and the neighborhood where you grow up can stay within you even if you move away. In the research project I return to my childhood's working-class neighborhood as a researcher and discuss belonging (Yuval-Davis 2006) and (im)mobility (Cresswell 2010), while utilizing creative research methodologies.

In the film as well as poetry reading, theory, (moving) images, sound and story work together as a collaborative engagement and the aim is to create bridges between analytical, practical and aesthetic modes of inquiry and representation. Following Holman Jones (2016), both theory, images, memories and stories are languages for thinking with and through, asking questions about, and acting on.